This paper combines novel data on the time use, home‐learning practices and economic
circumstances of families with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown with pre‐lockdown …

Cities play a pivotal role in promoting carbon emission reduction. Since 2010, the Chinese
government has developed several batches of low-carbon city pilots continuously. In this …

According to data from the working reports of China's 244 prefecture-level city governments
from 2004 to 2016, we used the instrumental variable method to identify the effects of …

I study how people understand, reason, and learn about two major tax policies: income
taxation and estate taxation. Using large-scale social economics surveys issued to …

This study aims to examine the impact of smart city construction on the ecological
environment quality (EEQ) of China. Due to the problems arising from urbanisation, local …

The growth of the “gig” economy generates worker flexibility that, some have speculated, will
favour women. We explore this by examining labour supply choices and earnings among …

We document the magnitudes of and mechanisms behind socioeconomic differences in
travel behavior during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We focus on King County, Washington, one …

We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the
poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry and household moves to healthier …

This paper examines a causal relationship between the flattening of a government hierarchy
and economic performance by exploiting a panel data set on government reorganization in …

In misdemeanor cases, pretrial detention poses a particular problem because it may induce
innocent defendants to plead guilty in order to exit jail, potentially creating widespread error …